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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men, House, Asking

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Nobody teaches life anything.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Teach

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Emotional, Fire

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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eye, Past, Light

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There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thinking, Hands, Body

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and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Two, Long, Silence

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When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Healthy, Bread, Hunger

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Literature, Woods

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He who awaits much can expect little.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Procrastination, Expectations, Literature

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dark, Half, Imagine

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.2775, Penguin UK

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I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Latin, Reality, Break Through

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories, Years, Finals

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.90, Penguin UK

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He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories, Night, Self

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He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Looks, Vegetarian, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

"Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morning, Wall, Writing

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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Country, Autumn, Cows

"The Autumn of the Patriarch". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 1975.

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Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love Is, Calamity, Greater

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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People, One Love, Should

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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Literature, Carpentry

"Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interview with Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Grief, Grateful, Eye

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Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Husband, Mirrors, Space

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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Journalist

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Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men, Imagination, Making Love

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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Problem, Findings, Pretension

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Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Book, Responsibility, Years

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Born: March 6, 1927
Died: April 17, 2014
Occupation: Novelist
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